Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the > fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a > big problem - we already do that with some shared tables, iirc.
I'm a bit suspicious of proposals that we move either hba or conf into SQL tables --- one of the main reasons why they are flat files is so you can still edit them after you've hosed them to the point that the database won't start or won't let you in. If you don't have a non-kluge solution to the DBA-mistake-recovery scenario, this is not going to be an improvement. Pushing postgresql.conf into a SQL table will also destroy all the work that was done recently to allow config sharing across multiple installations (eg the recent commit to support "include" goes out the window again). If we no longer care about that, why not? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings